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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society
Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122278
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Double burden of nutritional disorder among Indian women: an assessment of differentials and determinants
Singh, Deepti; Goli, Srinivas; T.V., Sekher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In India, over the years, the progress in women’s nutritional status has been less impressive and remains as a major problem for health policy. The dual burden of nutritional disorder of women in India is posing a serious challenge not only for nutritional policy but also for socio-economic...
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Zum politischen Machtwechsel in Griechenland. Die Parlamentswahlen von Januar 2015 aus einem kritischen Blickwinkel
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The Greek parliamentary elections in January .2015 led to a foreseeable change in government. The coalition government between the conservative Nea Dimokratia and of the socialist PASOK, become replaced. by a coalition government between the left wing coalition party SYRIZA and the extreme...
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Determinants of the Percent of the Population Enrolled in HMOs
Alexander, Gigi; Cebula, Richard; Saadatmand, Yassamand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This study seeks to identify key determinants of the percent of the population enrolled in HMOs. The HMO enrollment rate is an increasing function of the unionization rate and female labor force participation rate, while being a decreasing function of the poverty rate, the unemployment rate, and...
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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...
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Are the Children of Uneducated Farmers Doubly Doomed? Farm, Nonfarm and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural China
Emran, M. Shahe; Sun, Yan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
develops a research design to study the effects of parents' education and occupation on children's schooling. We use survey … developed matching and propensity score weighted estimators shows that the mean effects of parents education from the standard … model miss substantial heterogeneity. Within the low education subsample, a son (girl) attains about 0.80 (0.60) years of …
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Poverty in Tribal Dominated Economy: Dimensions and Proximate Determinants
Ray, Jhilam; Sengupta, Atanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
generation and spills over to successive generations as well. As a result Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education … and Human Poverty Index (HPI) to get the intra district scenario. Then the intergenerational mobility in education and …
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Poverty and disability among elderly in India: evidences from household survey
Pandey, Manoj K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper examines the causal relationship between disability and poverty among Indian elderly. Using different poverty … of National Sample Survey data on disability is used for this purpose. The results confirm the hypothesis of causal … relationship between poverty and disability. Further, our analysis suggests for higher level of poverty and income inequality among …
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Disability and Low Income Persistence in Italian Households
Parodi, Giuliana; Sciulli, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
’s characteristics, as employment status and education, contribute to determine low income positions. Our results also support the …
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